House Speaker Paul Ryan of Janesville, who announced last week that he won't seek reelection, says a lot has been accomplished in the past fifteen months, including the tax reform he says will reinvigorate the economy in next decade. "Personal income tax revenues ride over the decade, corporate income tax revenues rise over the decade. Entitlement spending grows by $2 trillion dollars," Ryan told members of Wisconsin Manufacturers and Commerce meeting in Madison Friday. Ryan said Congress … [Read More...]
Police credit surveillance cameras in arrest of sexual assault suspect
Police say it took detectives many hours pouring through surveillance camera video that led to the arrest of a suspect in an April sexual assault in downtown Madison. Dorian L. Wade, 28, is expected to face a charge of second-degree sexual assault in the case. In a news conference Thursday, Madison Police Chief Mike Koval said that Wade is on a list of people in Dane County with significant criminal histories. The victim, a 24-year-old UW student, flagged down a passerby to call police … [Read More...]
Madison fugitive found hiding in wall
A fugitive is in custody after being found hiding in a Madison residence. Thirty-three-year-old Jeremy Waugh of Madison was found hiding in a space behind a false wall, inside a closet in the home of his friend Tracy Martinez. Dane County deputies and the U.S. Marshals Service served a search warrant Wednesday. Waugh was arrested on domestic violence charges and a probation hold. He struggled with deputies, resulting in an added charge of resisting. Martinez was also arrested and charged … [Read More...]
‘SS Badger’ dock repairs underway
Recovery efforts are underway for the SS Badger Car ferry dock in Manitowoc after it was badly damaged by Lake Michigan waters over the weekend. Jason Ring is Executive Director of the Manitowoc Visitors and Convention Bureau. "We calculate the economic impact of what visitors spend that come off the car ferry. And the impact of that is around $14 million....pretty significant." The car ferry also adds or impacts a total of 700 jobs. Ring says if no setbacks occur, it is believed that they … [Read More...]
Report details 20th Century history of KKK at UW-Madison
UW-Madison is taking ownership of past campus groups with Ku Klux Klan affiliations. But the university has no plans to remove from campus buildings the names of student leaders who participated in the KKK in the early 20th Century. A newly released report mentions two student members by name: Porter Butts and Fredric March. Both were members of a KKK group that emerged in 1919, during the rebirth of the KKK as an organization opposed to civil rights for African-Americans, and that also … [Read More...]
Politics & Government
Ryan calls entitlement reform next big challenge for Congress
House Speaker Paul Ryan of Janesville, who announced last week that he won’t seek reelection, says a lot has been accomplished in the past fifteen months, including the tax reform he says will reinvigorate the economy in next decade. “Personal income tax revenues ride over the decade, corporate income tax revenues rise over the decade. […]
Crime & Courts
Police credit surveillance cameras in arrest of sexual assault suspect
Police say it took detectives many hours pouring through surveillance camera video that led to the arrest of a suspect in an April sexual assault in downtown Madison. Dorian L. Wade, 28, is expected to face a charge of second-degree sexual assault in the case. In a news conference Thursday, Madison Police Chief Mike Koval […]
